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DOHA: Qatar National Bank, the Middle East's biggest bank, Monday said it aimed to almost double its foreign ownership limit, nine months into a regional crisis with Doha at its center.
"QNB Group intends to recommend to the…

PARIS: South Korea's Samsung has overtaken US rival Intel as the world's biggest maker of semi-conductors as sales in the sector boom, a study published by consultancy Gartner showed on Thursday.
Samsung Electronics "gained the most…

Comparing her experience in Bollywood with Hollywood, Priyanka Chopra recently revealed her biggest fear in Hollywood.
Priyanka Chopra, who has played a villain's role in action comedy movie 'Baywatch' opposite Dwayne Johnson (The Rock)…

LOS ANGELES: Taylor Swift’s “Reputation” album sold 1.216 million copies in its first week and debuted at the top of the US Billboard 200 album chart, Nielsen Music said on Monday, the biggest album debut of the year.
The first week…

MEXICO CITY: A powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake rocked Mexico late Thursday, killing at least 16 people in what the president called the quake-prone country's biggest one in a century.
The quake hit offshore in the Pacific at 11:49 pm…

RIYADH: The world's largest private equity fund, backed by Japan's Softbank Group and Saudi Arabia's main sovereign wealth fund, said on Saturday it had raised over $93 billion to invest in technology sectors such as artificial intelligence…

BERLIN: China for the first time became Germany's most important trading partner in 2016, overtaking the United States, which fell back to third place behind France, data showed on Friday.
German imports from and exports to China rose to…

RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil just found its biggest ever dinosaur -- in a storage cupboard.
In its prime, more than 66 million years ago, this long necked herbivore was 25 meters (82 feet) long -- longer than an articulated bus -- and could…

SINGAPORE: Eight budget airlines from Southeast Asia, Japan and Australia said Monday they have formed what they called the world's largest alliance of low-cost carriers, enabling customers to book connections using a shared platform.